New Paperback: The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln

The more I read about Abraham Lincoln the more interesting and strange his life and death gets. I’ve been doing some reading up about him lately and discovered that a new paperback on his ‘psychic life’ is coming out later this month.

The book is called: The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln by Susan B. Martinez; it’s being published for the first time in paperback this month (March 20, 2009) and was originally published in hardcover back in 2007.

About the book:

In dreams, he foresaw his sudden death. He consulted oracles, and at age 22 was told by a seer that he would become President of the United States.

Obscurantists and historians have dismissed Abraham Lincoln’s psychic involvements which, in his own time, were profound state secrets. But Lincoln’s rise to power coincided with the Great Age of Spiritualism and, as a Mystical Unionist, he felt he was controlled by “some other power.”

Trauma and heartbreak opened the psychic door for this otherworldly President, whose precognitive dreams, evil omens, and trancelike states are carefully documented here in this bold yet poignant chronicle of tragic beginnings, White House séances, and paranormal eruptions of the Civil War era.

Aided by the deathbed memoir of his favorite medium, Lincoln’s remarkable psychic experiences come to life with communications from beyond, ESP, true and false prophecies, as well as thumbnail sketches of the most influential spiritualists in Lincoln’s orbit. Surveying clairvoyant incidents in Lincoln’s life from cradle to grave, the book also examines the Emancipation Proclamation and the unseen powers that moved pen to hand for its historic signing into law.

About the Author: Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, journalist, and activist who received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University in the 1970s. Raised by agnostic/intellectual parents, she found her way to Spiritualism in the early 1980s and has since researched and wrote on psychic phenomena, specializing in modern spiritualism in the Victorian era.